Mary J. Blige strikes a royal pose for the cover of W magazine’s Art issue cover.The queen of hip-hop soul is “anointed” with her own crown in the moody spread lensed by the legendary Carrie Mae Weems. See more ideas about mae, carry on, female artists. Feb 5, 2014 - Explore Joe Burns's board "Carrie Mae Weems" on Pinterest. Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online. Steeped in African-American history, Carrie Mae Weems’s works explore issues of race, class, and gender identity. Carrie Mae Weems (artist) American, born 1953. Bekijk meer ideeën over Kunstenaar, Fotografie, Fotografieprojecten. #artisttalk #CarrieMaeWeems #kitchentable @lesleyuniversity #jackshainmangallery The artist, looking extremely well-dressed in a formal dress made with folkish quilting, holds a hand mirror into which she stares. May Flowers, a compelling photograph of three young African American girls, succinctly addresses the issues of race, class, and gender that the American artist Carrie Mae Weems (b. Harper is picking out Stewart’s hair, an intimate scene that Drew believes references photographer Deana Lawson and Carrie Mae Weems. 6-apr-2016 - Bekijk het bord "Carrie Mae Weems, Kitchen Table" van Anna Theunissen op Pinterest. In 2003, the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University commissioned Carrie Mae Weems (b. Seville is a place where ideas about clothes, dress, presentation, sexuality, engagement, and tradition are so rooted. Carrie Mae Weems, seen here in her Kitchen Table series, is giving a lecture tomorrow evening October 1st from 7-9pm at Lesley University in Cambridge. Primarily working in photography and video, but also exploring everything from verse to performance, Weems has said that regardless of medium, activism is a central concern of her practice—specifically, looking at history as a way of better understanding the present. It was thrilling and lovely to see. They were like three years old, wearing these amazing dresses—flowers and ribbons in their hair. 1953) to create a work in response to the impending bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase. Girl Perhaps the key work in the show is Carrie Mae Weems’s mirror-image self-portrait, “I looked and looked to see what so terrified you” (2006). This image is unavailable for download. Photographs by Carrie Mae Weems; Styled by Styled by Paul Cavaco. Hair by Kim Kimble for Kimble Hair Care Systems at SixK.LA; makeup by D’Andre Michael for U.G.L.Y. The event is free and open to the public, to RSVP visit Lesley.edu/Weems. Image Use. Read our full Open Access policy for images. 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